---------------~---- -----------------------~--- -- -· --------------, VOL XXII, NO. 1:,s- FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Class of 1989 says farewell to ND, SMC ~341 graduate Saint Mary's to ND on Sunday graduate· 435 By CHRISTINE WALSH By MATT GALLAGHER Senior Staff Reporter Senior Staff Reporter The Class of 1989 will bid farewell to Four hundred thirty five Saint Mary's the University of Notre Dame in the College seniors will participate in Sat­ 144th Commencement Exercises, Sun­ urday's commencement activities. day, May 21 at 2 p.m. in the Joyce ACC. The 142nd commencement for Saint Of the 2341 degree candidates, 800 are Mary's College seniors will be held Sat­ from the College of Arts and Letters; urday, May 20 at noon in the court of 480 from the College of Business Ad­ LeMans Hall on the Saint Mary's ministration; 291 from the College of campus. The rain site is Angela Ath­ Engineering; 213 from the College of letic Facility. Science and 205 from the Graduate Francine du Plessix Gray, an author School. 190 students will receive and journalist, will present the com­ MBA's; and 172 will receive degrees mencement address to the graduating from the Law School. seniors. Business entrepreneur Peter Ueber­ Deanne Wachel, of Munster, Ind., is roth will speak before the audience of the valedictorian of the Saint Mary's about 12,000 and will receive an class of 1989. Wachel, a double major honorary doctor of laws degree at the in chemistry and mathematics, ceremony. received a perfect 4.0 grade point Ueberroth became president of the average through all four years of study Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Com­ at Saint Mary's. mittee in 1979 in preparation for the Two honorary degrees will be con­ 1984 Summer Games, a task for which ferred at the ceremony. Sister Joan he was named Time magazine's "Man Chittister OSB, prioress of the Erie, of the Year." Pa., Benedictine order, will receive an From March 1984 to March 1989, honorary degree. Chittister is a colum­ Ueberroth served as major league nist for the National Catholic Reporter baseball commissioner. Ueberroth's and an activist in Pax Christi, the U.S. major accomplishments during his ten­ Catholic chapter of the international ure include: peace movement. • a major effort to eradicate drugs; Also receiving an honorary degree is • the establishment of a baseball Archbishop Eugene Marino. Marino, alumni charity foundation for former the archbishop of Atlanta, is the na­ major league players in need of assis­ tion's first black archbishop and is one tance; of only 12 black bishops in the United • the augmentation of minority hirings States. in front office positions; Lydia Haggar Novakov is the • the increased fiscal health of the recipient of this year's President's game. Medal. Novakov, of Dallas, Texas and Eight others will receive honorary a 1972 graduate of Saint Mary's, is a degrees from the University. retiring member of the College's board Karen McKibbin, a chemistry and bi­ of regents. ol9gy teacher at LaSalle High School The President's Medal was awarded in South Bend and Indiana's 1989 for the first time in 1967, and has been "Teacher of the Year," will be the first presented 16 times since. Criteria for secondary school teacher ever to Goodbye, Golden Dome th~ honor are outstanding service to receive an honorary doctor of laws Samt Mary's and to the individual's from the University. Members of the Class of 1989 bid farewell to the Golden Dome as this weekend's com­ local community. mencement activities get underway. The next time these men and women see the Ad­ see NO I page 5 . ministration building, they will be alums . see SMC I page 6 COMMENCEMENT WEEKEND ACTIVITIES Brian Einloth graduates first Saint Mary's in Notre Dame ·C~Iass of 1989 Friday, May 19 1 p.m. Saint Mary's Nurses Pinning Ceremony, Church of Our Lady of By MICHELLE DALL cally carried 16 or 17 credit deferred admissions policy at Loretto Senior Staff Reporter hours per semester. the Harvard Business School, 4 p.m. Saint Mary's Baccalaureate Mass, Angela Athletic Facility A strong academic back­ which requires three years of Brian Einloth, valedictorian ground in math and science in­ work experience before enroll­ Saturday, May 20 of the Notre Dame Class of 1989 itially contributed to Einloth's ment. Although he says his Noon Saint Mary's Commencement, Court of LeMans Hall considers the title "a great interest in engineering. "I was plans to earn an MBA are cer­ honor." pretty good at math and liked tain, Einloth has not yet science," he said. "I thought decided whether he will attend • SMC valedictorian I page3 engineering would be a good Harvard in 1992. Notre Dame way to incorporate both my tal­ Einloth, an electrical engin­ ents and interests into one field, Continuing his studies in Thursday, May 18 eering major from Pittsburgh, instead of restricting myself to engineering is -;:,o part of Em­ 7 p.m. Law School Third Year Students Dinner, JACC Monogram Room Pennsylvania, boasted a 3.992 either just math r just sci­ loth's post-~.-aduation plan-- a cumulative GPA after seven ence." plan whir~t, he says, "may or Saturday, May 20 semesters. may r>. .,t lead to a masters 9:30 a.m. ROTC commissioning, JACC Arena Einloth has spent the past degr<Je." The sole grade marring Ein­ two summers as an intern at 11 a.m. ROTC reception, JACC Monogram Room loth's otherwise perfect record the Delco Electronics Corpora­ Einloth said he is both 5 p.m. Notre Dame Bacalaureate Mass, JACC Arena was a "B" he received in a one­ tion, in Kokomo, Ind. He will pleased and honored to be credit chemistry lab course his begin full-time work at Delco named this year's valedic­ 6:45p.m. Notre Dame Graduation Dinner, JACC Fieldhouse freshman year. in June. torian. "You can't possibly fig­ Following graduation, Ein­ ure as a freshman that you can Sunday, May 21 Einloth was salutatorian of loth said he will also "definitely attain this honor," he said .. 2 p.m. Notre Dame commencement, JACC Arena his high school class. As an pursue an MBA." He was "You don't really think about engineering student, he typi- recently accepted on a it until it happens." ~------------------------------- ----------------------------------------~ page 2 The Observer Friday, May 19, 1989 CAMPUS BRIEFS Look forward - the view $33 million has been donated to Notre Dame by Edward DeBartolo of Youngstown, Ohio. The gift, one of the largest ever in American higher education, will underwrite a back is not all roses new academic quadrangle and the construction of its anchor buildings, the $16-million Edward J. DeBartolo Classroom • The schmaltz stops here. Facility and the $14-million Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the It's a good thing Monk and Co. didn't name 'College is the me valedictorian. Aside from having a GPA Performing Arts, named after DeBartolo's wife who died in 1987. best time of your life' DeBartolo is a graduate of the Notre Dame class of 1932. His closer to hell than heaven, I don't think I would son, Edward DeBartolo, Jr., graduated from the University in have the same viewpoint on leaving the "Notre is the equivalent of 1968. The rest of the benfaction will finance general development Dame family" as whoever's got that lofty post. 'My life went of the quad, which will extend southward on the east side of N. Sure, sure, we're leaving close friends made downhill after Notre Dame avenue, the main entrance to the campus. The class­ here after four years of group survival. And twenty-one.' ' room facility is expected to be completed in early 1992 and the we're leaving the security of maids and dining performing arts center late that year. halls and advisors of many sorts and a rela­ Mark Mclaughlin tively sedate culture. Graduating Senior Sacred Heart Church will close following Commencement But we're also leaving parietals. And the al­ Exercises Sunday to allow for extensive restoration of its interior. cohol policy. And parking on the Alaskan The doors of the 118-year-old church are not expected to reopen Tundra. And being broke and having no income. • Remember the time St. Michael's shrunk all until the fall of 1990. In the meantime, Sunday Masses and most And preaching from Mount Goldendome. And your slacks four sizes the day before your SYR? Holy Cross Community liturgies will be celebrated in Stepan the tray line at North Dining Hall that doesn't That must have hurt. Center Approximately 50 alumni marriages are normally held seem to ever let you put trays on it. And being • Remember that time you tried to turn the in the church each summer. The crypt, where Sacred Heart treated as not-quite-a-slave just because you Dome green with colored paper and they caught Parish Masses are also said, will remain open, and small wed­ pay tuition instead of being paid salary. you and interrogated you for hours in the little dings can also be accomodated in the Log Chapel on campus. Pessimism? Never heard of it. But when the white room upstairs? The interior work is the last phase of extensive renovation of the silver lining gets a little too dear to the heart, Hey, this place isn't that bad. I sincerely . church. it's good to know there's usually a cloud to get believe that Notre Dame is secretly made more the mush out of your system.